Nice picture of me by Bob taken in New Bedford at a sort of "second opening" at The Co-Creative Center. We did manage to miss the actual opening as COVID came to call... but it was fun to finally make it to the show "Adjacency" celebrating the adjeacent relationship of my self and Liv Haines and Elizabeth Wilkinson to Swain School of Design alum and faculty. I am twice adjacent as both Bob and my sister Cathy went to Swain!
So we had fun and a mini-get-away and saw lots of art and people. One of the most fun pieces of civic art was this giant rooster made from entirely recycled/upcycled plastic and metal junque. Twenty feet tall and absolutely great!!
Pretty cool, right? The artist Artur Bordalo (who goes by the name Bordalo II) created this piece with the help of residents who gathered and "donated" all kinds of street finds- crushed shopping carts and orange traffic cones and even a plastic spring horse! It's monumental and fun and the way public art should be. (many "public art" pieces are bland and pretty easy to ignore...)
we had a splendid time and were even able to park for free overnight downtown as the code on our ticket refused to be read and we were ushered out for freeeeeeee!!
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